Grad school meets The Mighty Ducks

I did an online search for Michigan universities that have any kind of film degree. Some of the major state schools, such as Michigan State University (Go Spartans!) and the University of Michigan do NOT have any kind of real film program.

Central Michigan does, however. In looking over the graduate program's courses, I ran across this:

An entire course about hockey movies? Do they sit around and watch The Mighty Ducks trilogy?

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Watch documentaries for free

VERY cool: Documentaries go free online

The short story - watch documentaries for free online at snagfilms.com

Free Music: Leeland

I couldn't believe it, a free song with no gimmicks; I didn't have to sign up for anything. Just go to http://leelandonline.com/oppositeway/ or click here for a direct link

Michigan wins over Texas film

Drew Barrymore's film starring Ellen Page, "Whip It", was set to be shot entirely in Austin, TX - that is, until Michigan came along...

My friend won an Emmy

My friend, David Fry won a regional Emmy for his producing/editing. This is him accepting the award (he's the second one to speak).


The 45th Annual Northwest Regional EMMY Awards from David Fry on Vimeo.

Who is Roderick Jaynes?

Do you know who Roderick Jaynes is? Neither did I - until today.

He caught my attention when I noticed him on Entertainment Weekly's "50 Smartest People in Hollywood". Most of the people on the list are producers, directors, actors, but there was an editor on the list - Roderick Jaynes.

So, I looked him up and found that...

1. He's been nominated for two film editing Oscars (Fargo and No Country for Old Men) and,

2. He's not a real person. Roderick Jaynes is the pseudonym of Joel and Ethan Coen as editors.

What would happen if he should win an Oscar? Perhaps the bigger news is that the Coen brothers are a bit odder than previously thought.

Of note: Other fake people have been nominated for Oscars

Robot is really, really smart, but not really

I love stuff like this... The headline reads "Robot conducts Detroit Symphony!" Then I read the actual article which essentially says:

1. It's not really conducting the symphony, and

2. It's not really very smart and can't respond in simple ways humans can

Yay for progress